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Members' blog for IoT product development and product and systems engineering from concept to disposal. Posts here are focused on, but not limited to, systems, complex systems, systems of systems, and sub-systems all the way down to embedded software.

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The SE-Toolkit included with Rhapsody 8.0.5 has undergone a major revision. The old toolkit was written in Visual Basic and was starting to show its age. The new SE-Toolkit has been re-written from the ground up in Java - making it linux-compatible as well as having a more modern user interface. However the new user interface and menus may cause confusion for existing users and so these entries will attempt to detail what the new UIs look like and how they work.... [More]

Simplifying the Workspace The Harmony-SE Profile for Rhapsody 8.0.5 attempts to make life simpler for the systems engineer by removing many of the less-used properties and toolbar icons. Here is a summary of those changes and the instructions for removing those simplifications. Alternate location for reading this article: Harmony-SE Workspace Simplification Settings General To see the changes the profile has made, select the Harmony-SE Profile and invoke the Features dialog. Select the Properties tab and change the filter to... [More]

Here it is – the next iteration (4.1) of the Harmony Deskbook . Two chapters were added to the Appendix, extending the scope of the previous release. It now addresses the model-based system design approach in case of a change request to a legacy system and a model-based testing approach for the verification of hand-off models by means of the Rhapsody tool add-ons T est C onductor (TC) and A utomatic T est G eneration (ATG). The testing chapter is a contribution of Dr. Udo Brockmeyer (BTC Embedded... [More]